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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20
WOMEN EDITORS.
Some Who Command High Salaries and
Have Attained Distinction.

Some VINO Command High salaries ana
Have Attained Distinction.
1t would make long list simply to
enumerate the names of women who
sit in the editorial chairs of magazines.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge went from a
successful literary career to the office of
ST. Nicholas. Ella Farman Pratt takes
an occasional part in making up Vide
AUGke. OF the fashion periodicals
there is no better edited publication of
any kind in the country than Harper'S S
Bazar, of which Mrs. Mary L. Booth,
and in her absence Mrs. S. S. Conant,
has full control. Jennie June has
half ownership in GodeyS LAZY Book
and is supreme in the editorial room.
Nine. Demorest has but just retired
from the business control of the maga-
zine bearing her name. The widow of
Peterson, the Philadelphia publisher,
has taken PeterSon'S Magazine into her
own hands, both editorially and fnan-
cially. The Ladies World pays the
woman at its head $1,000 a year. and
the new dress reform magazine Dress,
if Mrs. Jenness Miller will allow
it to be clasSed with fashion pub
lications, is in part owned and
wholly managed by its editor, who is
putting good deal of fresh talent into
its early issues. Mrs. Laura Holloway
edits the Home Library Magazine and
the Woman's Arg0sy, new Chicago ven
tures, which promise large success.
Mrs. Josephine Redding edits two
decorative art magazines very ably,
and the housekeeping magazines are
in swarms. Of more serious class
of publications, Mrs. Martha j. Lamb
has increased the circulation and made
the reputation of the Magazine Of Anaer-
icdp History, and Miss Jeanette Glider
commands unlimited respect for her
work on the Critic. Philanthropic pub
locations of all sorts are in feminine
hands. Edward Everett Hale's Lend
Hand is largely directed by woman.
and the list, not of women who supply
matter for departments, but who are
in editorial or business control, or both,
of periodicals of some size and stand
ing could be prolonged at some length.
Many of the large publishing houses
say that women make the best readers
of manuscript, and the samo qualities
that make feminine talent available
there, together with some tact and
business judgment, make good editors
of them also. Their periodicals almost
invariably are good business properties,
and are nicely adjusted to the exact
clientage they are meant to reach.
Jennie June says women like editorial
work. and editorial work thus far seems
to like them also.-N. Y. Letter.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20
GENERAL BOUlANGER.
The Parentage and Early Life of the No
Famous Frcuchman.

/ The Parentage and Early Life of the Now
! Famous Frcnchman.
The son of a notary Of the town of
RenneS, it is not the accident of birth
| that has advanced General Boulanger
to the highest a;tainable grade OF the
French army. He has but to thank his
Breton perseverance, his indomitable
strength of will. his extraordinary
audacity, in a word his own power
and ability to recognize, seize,
and make the most of the various
opportunities that have come in
his way. Though by birth a French
man, and the son of French
man, he can still claim some kinship
with England, his mother being an
Englishwoman, of whose comely fea-
.ures her son is said to inherit no small
share. Things did not prosper with
the Rennes solicitor, and shortly after
the birth of his son, which took place
On the 29th of April, 1887, ne sold his
practice and removed to Nantes,
where he obtained employment rs
an inspector of the insurance COM
pany La Bretagne. 1t will be un-
derstOod, then, that the subject
of this sketch was not brought
up in enervating luxury. Indeed.
as the Breton phrase goes. There was
more bread than butter in that family"
The early schOOl-days of the young
Bouianger were passed on British soil,
at Brighton. where he was placed under
the care of his maternal uncles. 1t is
open to doubt whether his "reminiscences
of the few years spent in England are
OF the brightest description, for the
Young Frenchman was treated in no
tender manner by his British school
fellows, to whom his nationality APP
peared TO offer every excuse for various
descriptions of bullying. His appeals
and complaints to his relatives passed
unheeded, for they had apparently re-
solved that even at that early date he
should learn to fight his own battles.
1t was doubtless hard lesson for the
young French boy, in foreign land.
away from parents and home, but it
WAS one which has borne good fruit in
his after life. On january ID. 1875, in
his eighteenth year, Georges-ErneSt-
Jean-Marie BOulanGer was entered at
the famous military College of st. Cyr,
and it was here that his predominant
qualities first manifested themselves.
Though persevering and attentive
student, he was not negligent in Otlac
matters. and as the child is said 20 81,
father of the man, so was Georges
Boulangers youth prophetic of his ma
turer years. A story is told. on his
own authority, which indicates the bent
of his character better than could whole
pages of psychological argument to the
effect that on '.liberty days QcS jours
de sortie) he would content himself for
breakfast with dish of potatoes.
bought ut some street stall or unpre-
temtioas shop. in order To treat himself
to pair of light yellow kid gloves with
the balance of his dinner allowance.
But General Boulanger is probably not
the ouly eminent man to whose account
4 similar charge might be laid.-forE-
s:gh,.y Reric,g.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20

the doctor. with his low smile, ani they
parted very amicably.
Four months before Gordon could be
rowed by Charlie in the new boat on
the old, dear lakei In the rich sun
shine of all autumn day they floated
along the softly-curving shore, under
branches of crimson and gold. past the
sumach trees and the thorn-apple
bushes, and the woods where the yellow
mandrakes were hanging.
II guess" said Gordon, in very
faint voice, from his bank of pillows in
the stern, and with a very faint smile,
II guess l shall pull through, Ham,"
why, of course you WILL" replied
Charlie, briskly, and his voice seemed
to both of them to have the volume of
small cataract. .'Of course; l told
you you would. Why. you are getting
fat"
Gordon passed his hand over the
hollows in his cheeks, with another
smile, and continued: "You know what
the doctor said made me sick"
Charlie nodded.
Broke my nervous system all up.
We'll, 1 know those high school fellows
got to smoking because smoked-little
ones. some of them-and I've planned,
when 1 get well and go back there,
to start a club, called the Anti-Tobacco
Club. and get 'em all in it. l can do
that much"
"Goodr' cried Charlie, dropping his
oars to applaud; land you can ap-
pear before the werld, and make
speeches in the character of the rs
formed smoker"
In time the club was formed. 1t met
every week in a room hired and furn-
ished by the parents of the members;
and there they played games, and read
aloud (more tobacco literature in their
first enthusiasm than afterward) and
discussed subjects. and finally wrote
articles" 1t grew and fiourished;
and to-day, though the illustrious
founder and his friend, the first presi-
dent, are in college, it is considered an
honor for any boy to belong to that
club.-Florence E. Yield, tn ~ T.
Examiner.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20
Lost Rivers of Idaho.

One of the most singular features in
the scenery of the Territory of Idaho
the occurrence of dark. rocky chasms.
nto which large streams and creeks
'uddenly disappear, and are never more
seen. These assures are old lava chan
nels. produced by the outside of the
molten mass cooling and forming a
tube, which. On the fiery stream becom-
ing exhausted, has been left empty,
while the roof of the lava duct, hav-
ing at some point fallen in. presents
there the opening into which the river
plunges and is lost. At one place along
the banks OF the Snake, one of these
rivers rcappears gushing from cleft
high up in the basaltic walls. where it
leaps a cataract into the torrent below
Where this stream has its origin, or at
what point it is swallowed ap, is utterly
unknown, though it is believed that its
sources are long way up in the north
country.-Goldsra Days.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20
A CHILD'S IDEA OF DEATH.

As a lily bud, broke from its stem, will decay,
So white, wan and dropping dying boy lay,
With far-avay, questioning look IN his eyes,
As though he'd unVeil the mysterious skies.
For moment he lay in that stiffness that bring
The warning approach OF the rustling OF wings
Then, suddenly, rousing with short, gaspinG
breath,
He said TO his mother: Mamma, what i!
deathr'
She stifed the sob and the sharp, cruel pain
The question evoked; but how to explain,
When death stood beside her just waiting Il
grasp
With pitiless fingers her child from her clasp:
But noting his anxiously listening stare,
She smothered her agony, hid her despair;
And, thinking to shield him from deaths rude
alarms,
She tenderly clasped him as safe, in her arms.
And asked him: My darling, what think you
is deathy'
Awaiting his answer with bated breath:
1t came very slowly, his eyes growing dim
An, surely the angels were whispering TO him.
'"Tis falling asleep by the roadside he said,
And YEARLY laid on her bosom his head.
AS only mother can weep, so she wept,
But he on lifes roadside now quietly slept.
Hannah More KOhdus. Ia Chicago Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20
a Few German Bull.

The Irish have not got monopoly
for the manufacture of bulls. The Ger.
mar papers abound in them. Here ere
i few specimen bricks:
After the door was closed. a soft
female foot slipped into the room. and
with her own hand extinguished the
taper.
Both doctors were unable to restore
the deceased once more TO life and
health"
"a man living in Freudenstadt tried
to shoot his wife, but missed her. for
which he was promptly locked up
1.-The Ladies Benevolent Association
has distributed twenty pairs of shoes
which will dry up many Il tear"
Il WAS sitting at the table enjoying a
cup of coffee, when a geatle voice
tapped me Oil the shoulder. l looked
around and SAW my Old friend -
TeLdS SiffinGs
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20

A short coffee crop is reported. 1t
is to be hoped. in the interest of suffer
ing humanity, that there will be enough
Of t.ie berry in the market to supply
those gentlemen suffering from the coz
:es habit who are unable TO SIT through
theatrical performance without run
ming out three or four times il search
7f sustenance.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20

Omaha Man .'Of all persons
When did you cross the Atlantic,
George?" English Lord-'.iIrsh! Har-
ry. don't speak so loud. Call me
Blinks." "Biinks. eh? Say, George,
whas means this masquerading?" 'The
fact is. Harry, I'm in love with an
American girl and am trying to pass
myself off for respectable citizen. -
-Uplaha W0y.G
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-20

80, OF course you were not 'awarer
Who ever is aware of a mischief until it
is done? But rather think l would
know it if there were twenty-five boys
in my school who were smoking, led by
the example of one. The fact is, sir.
boys all over our country arc learning,
almost before they are out of petticoats.
and long before they are out of short
trousers, a habit that makes them
sickly. idle, useless and disSolute young
men-diSS0lute, sir; for l have never
known, in all my practice. a drinking
young man who was not a user of to-
bacco first. Some can stand tobacco
better than others, but l have yet to
find one system whose action is not
rendered absolutely vicious by it. To
some organizations. strong, yet sensi-
tive-fne organizations like this young
fellow w's-itis-poisOn-b the con-
stitution all upr'
The doctors emphasis was terrific.
''Poor Dick must be very low." thought
MIR. Sterling. Then he said aloud: Il
know that tobacco is injurious, doctor;
and regret its prevalent use. T. (col-
oring)-'1 sometimes smoke a cigar
myself"
Then the sooner you stop smoking
q cigar yourself. ~ growled the doctor,
'thc better for you and for others
through your example, sir"
Mr.. Sterling colored more deeply; but
he was very honest man. You mean
well. DOCTOR" said he, "and l will
stop"
"Kell, you mean well, too" returned
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07
ARB YOU GOING
rUKANSAS MlOSU SRI, COLO
RADIO NEBRASKA OREGON
CALIFORNIA.

Or any point in the West or North
wos2 Ii so YOU will ofcourse wish to
oc informed as to the cheapest, short
e., and most pleasant route. You will
wish to purchase your ticket via the
routethat will subjectyou to no della Is
and by which through trains are run.
Before YOU start you should provided
yourself with a map Of the Kansas
City Route kansas City, Springfield
* Memphis r. r. the only route
from the South TO the West. The
line runs its entire trains, with Pull
man Palace Sleeping Cars, free Reclin-
ing Chair Cars and elegant Day Coach
as from Memphis to Kansas City, saw
ing many hours time over any other
route
For emigrants from the South to Or
egon, Washington and the Far West,
this route is especially desirable, as cm-
grants tickets are by this route carried
in hrst-class cars on first class trains.
Close connections are made at Union
Depot, Kansas City, with overland
routes, carrying free emigrant Sleep
ing cars through to Portland, Oregon.
Thus passengers by this route have
but one change Of cars, Memphis to
Portland Oregon. When you go West
YOU will save time and money by pur.
chasing your ticket via Memphis and
the Kansas City Route. Send for =
large map Of this short route. Send
for copy Of the Missouri and Kan
sas Farmer, an eight-page illustratra
paper, giving full and reliable iniorms-
ton in relation to those two great state.
mailed free. Address
j f. LOCKWOOD,
Genil Pass. Ag., Kansas City.
or HI ID. ELLIS,
Tkt ARt.. a Madison ST.. Memphis. Tenn.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07
/. /. PORTER,
DOCTOR OF
1tatal1SHrserg.

Having Just received about $50 sets Of the to-
est AID prstiissi Teeth be ever laid eyes 90,
che excellent people Of Okoloua aid SURROUND
ing cuuntrv Deed no longer BE- dependent co
transient and Ephemerd Dentists. BY being
prompt IN paymeuts my get their work dole
il q manner Incompatible At about one-hali Or
iwo-thirds usual charges.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

who possess no ant talent % con-
ceiye new designs are often funny
.l She extreme. There are one or
two houses 10 Okoloua such perfect
mutations OF vaults that we shud-
3tr when we pass them. There is
a Iilus green Swiss cottage at the
end OF olive Street that might be
converted INTO oae of tue most at
tractive of homes. Gatlin Street
6a- one on two houses that are
very pretty and had they larger
wards could be made beautiful.
On Church Street there is large
house, IN a line yard, that might be
converted into a most pleasing
homo. There is a corner lot on
GatIin aud Main where a highly ar
ustic home, with two fronts, Queen
Annie style and painted in two
shade, might be located There is
a fine building lotion Prairie Street,
where Swiss cottage could be set
with good effect.
Let MS then be done with negro
shauties and inartistic homes on
eur best streets. Columbus and
Aberdeen pay tar moro attention
to the aesthetic than we do and what
is the resuIt2 The stranger hunt
ing home would by no means e.
let the ugliest Of the three places.
Men are governed largely by ap-
poarances and the low set cottages,
which are in the majority IN our
town, with their weed grown yards,
are anything but attractive.
We hear of improvements TO be
made upon many Of our homes in
the near future, LET US beg you not
to copy . model already in the
town, build as unlike your neigh
Dor as you can and be assured ysur
work viii not tire and satiate the
visitor who comes among as as a
possible settler. There are towns
possessing far less wealth than this
to which ge must yield the palm
for beautiful homes. But the pee
pie OF such towns are unified by
local pride, and are not easily
moved by the Aladdin Lamp ac-
counts OF great fortunes TO be made
in some siekly ill-drained city,
whorc yrasping corporations ring
values 70 fifty, one hundred. and
one hundred and fifty per cent.
above par ultil thousands have in
YES I'd tbo.r piles and then sink
tLsm. 90 bug them on the fall TO
5e again i11a.ed The few win,
tie many lose.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

! have been bothered with ca
tarrh for about twenty years. I
had lost my smell entirely for the
last fifteen years, and had almost
lost my hearing. My eyes were
getting so dim I had to get some
one 90 thread my needle. Now |
have my bearing as well as ] ever
bad, and I can see to thread as fine
a needle as I ever did Ny sense of
smell is partly restored; itseems to
be improving an the time. I think
there is nothing Ike Ely's Cream
Balm for catarrh. Mrs. F. +.
Grimes, Rondull, Perry Co., Ohio.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

A dude Of very uncommon
class passed through Okolona re
cently-it was difficult for the few
who saw it, to tell which end Of the
creature was up, for the largest part
Of its understanding was at the bot
tom. It left a pale, faint daffOdil-
" Odor in its path like unto crush
cd squashes, aud made a Groom
ing noise like that Of a young kit
ten with fracture in its caudal
appendix-the creatures manner
Of singing doubtless. 1t sighed
like bellows, ard like a bellows
too II was a wind instrument.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

Iu- -nI salmon tN.ra f.
Ill. rs.g, 4 Gr... ..t
tn uaac riJ.rs 81 ,rssr,
rgr.y t.f,rrtr. vs.r
r.arn.tta correspond va,lf ...v.
f.l.str.au Observer. M
laeeateaf.a l,sro,r.. s~s .nsll
s-x1tartl+zls anna ip tbs ,or.r
stony lzxI2 ana evsp smaller
haa dis For aorl,. sto-r c,t
t,fes. two colors sre errr.,sd
with GOOD effect .av 4.r. dive
lar the first story AID Ii,a,.,
shade of olive f,r taa ....-5 ,t.t
4el trimmings: or f-rral sot
rs! tor the frstana stone blrc for
TIE second. with red trimmings ana
blocked rgofin two shades If red
or grey Bat when we speak Of
rsI. let no one imagine We refer ~
ih4 eandv red common anone no
taa tarral Gotta red isasof. wbitei.t
nod. With decided termilliop
t.uce The cattegss If Okoiops s,.
igariabla one OF three DESIGNS
theplain box front. much bebrsck.
ote3 and bauistered the extended
front room. bay window and ral-
lery. with quantities oftrimmings
Ctbis is the favorite styIe) and the
curious structures with vault like
d9rmer windows. Beyond these
conventional forms our local build
crs DO not 20. What a relief 10
the eye there is in variety of form ,
Diversity is the great source Of
Natures pleasure giving power.
Trees have this diversity. az. the
very leaves vary There i no
copying in Nature.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

When Mrs. Cleveland blows her
nose, earth stops until the sound
can get round her twenty-five thou
sand miles.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07
~ 20 c.pabIe b nsIng slss.areag

Are You Capable or being Mesaareda
o, tor the day, when men shall
come out upon the side Of right,
spurning with infinite contumely. /
and wrong for the sake Of the vir
tue there is IN the opposition.
o. for the times OF big men,
brainey big and soul big, TO whom
all forms Of expressions are hate
tai. all forms Of deceit abhorrent
Men who can stand IN the face Of
angry factions and say, II will be
fright and do right, not that / may
: be- rewarded, but because feel
D within me that which soorns false
hood, chicanery aud guile"
b, The nation needs such men tor
high places to lash the conoi-
ices Of her unworthy servants, to
an them with an equal shame and
hatred Of wrong doing.
o, you who hold a peoples trust
q by virtue of minority power,
you. who in the bigotry bred Of an
. hours reign, in the full glitter Of
official prominence, forget your
allegiance to the people who have
raised you TO your present hei ghts,
a day ofreconing must come.
! Are you capable of being meas
1rel by a standard of purity, free
,m ali selfish and little aims !
can be proven that you are
upt, you are unworthy the
L Ii it can be shown
cial ~obes are stained
sactions, you
place you
lese be added
high Office, 70
your nefarious
We heed TO the voice
utv.
Jp Though your corpora
be close backed as a Macedon-
an phalanx, though you be hedged
cedents and armed with
lders of IT,, law, your po-
ON has been sealed. You
smile in the fancied security
our position and mock with
like indifference, the shrill
Of warning, which a few hum
voices have raised against you,
{ the people to whom you must
,peaI for your vindication, are
ot to be frighted BY false fire.
Calmly, dispassionately, yoer
De reward will come. it will come in
y the shape of a ballot, it will say to
'r YOU in tones low yet unmistakable
c' you have offended against the
o. majesty Of the law and have by
Is your mad ambition invited your
PC tall. You have exacted titbes from
DC those who placed the sceptre OF
IL power in your hands, in order to
ct live in the interest Of self alone.
nc You have grown aris.ocratic, over
Ell bearing, arrogant; insulting to the
H. weak, eringing to the strong; in
1e your wild desire to shine, you have
oe lost sight OF the purpose of your
ng elevation. For these and divers
~ reasons stamping your whole
II official conduct, we bid you down
en- from your pedestals and out and
'o may the walks ofprivate life bring
Is you a proper self abasemont and .
o. wiser abnegation Of self
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-07-07

as this the /
Negation isl
I will not
with the giant
odious hy
tiny noun
beautiful
ocean,
er in a.
sn Won
les Of
ore TO
90 your
SO much
ouses snch
he shrubbery
f. -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-28
SHALL WAR TAXES CEASE ?

From Tho Bulletin of The Philadelphia
Textile Association.
A cry has bee .aised for the re.
peal of the "war taxes" We have
shown elsewhere that at present we
are paying a less rate of duty than
was frequently paid before the war;
hence, the charge that our tariff is
a "brutal' legacy Of the war, not
to be tolerated, is not true But
these internal taxes are a war leg
acy. They were war measure,
and as the necessities which called
them into existence have long since
ceased to exist there is no suffi-
ciehS excuse for their continuance.
They are war taxes, and should be
repealed.
Did the tax on whisky effect any
thing in the way Of preventing
either its manufacture or its use
we should be one Of the last to ad.
vocate its repeal. But it accom-.
plisheS leither. We grant that, il
the revenue from this source we're
needed, the article taxed, being a
luxury, it might very properly bear
this burden. But the National
Government does not need this
revenue; the State governments,
which have to bear the burdens
which this article entails, do Reed
any tax which may be collected
upon it, and it should be lett to
them to levy it, and, ifany of these
should choose to make it so heavy
that both its manufacture and use
shall be greatly lesseRed within
their borders so much the setter.
We all know that it entails fearful
burdens upon any community
which allows its use. Then let
these same communities roll back
upon it the burdens which it i'm.
poses.
1t is certainly not too much to
hope that Congress may repeal
these taxes.